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3 unusual facts about Gaspee Days Committee


Gaspee Days Committee

The Committee also helps to acknowledge the importance of the Gaspee Affair in the independence movement that led to the American Revolutionary War.

The Gaspee Days Committee is a civic-minded, nonprofit organization that operates many community events in and around Pawtuxet Village, including the famous Gaspee Days Parade each June.

The first recorded celebration of the Gaspee Affair was in 1774 near Williamsburg, Virginia where George Washington himself related in his diary that he spent 3s.9d.



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